Vought, Trump’s OMB Pick, Poised To Push Project 2025 Budget Cuts

Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) for a second time, is expected to push a series of measures from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 deregulatory blueprint for the new administration to slash OSHA and other agencies’ budgets, as well as wider efforts to scale back the executive branch civil service. Trump tapped Vought to revise his role as OMB director in a Nov. 23 post on Truth Social, the...